U.S. Hegemony on the Decline

Off Topic Politics & World Issues
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Castoli the clown
Castoli the clown
Lets his family and friends down
Oh, Castoli the clown

Blames the USA for everything
But he lives off the very thing he hates
He is useless and can’t even sing
His wife doesn’t like him so she finds another to date

He won’t move,
Thinks he is changing the world
By spouting off in a bodybuilding forum
Lost a job in the bartending world
Blames everyone else because he is a scrotum

Castoli the clown
Castoli the clown
Lets his family and friends down
Oh, Castoli the clown

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889

The often stupid sentiment by people who believe to try and change that which is perceived as wrong as a waste of time. So just move. Turd-licker!

Is this all that I do?

Blames the people whose fault it was and a garbage system that allows it to occur w/ no option of recourse.

890

So says you.

891

Yet worker coops are still successful and far more democratic

892

I hate to say this but once I saw it I immediately thought of you.
Confucius.

893

More successful?

You might want to check up on Mondragon - they took some hits in 2022.

Also one of the few worker coops in the US in Jackson, MS has been disbanded and ate the dust for fraudulent practices.

Your only one that has done decently well is Mondragon and guess what? They have outside investors too in their parent company.

You might want to do some more research before blindly following and spouting bullshit while telling us we are all dumb. But, this doesn’t surprise me since you couldn’t even figure out how to keep a menial job and still haven’t figured out how to make some actual real money and you are like 50+.

We are all laughing at you and you can’t even see it.

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894

Thank you.

895

You know he is not.

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896

Not if @castoli711 and the other owners decide to revolt and send your descendants to the gulag. Fuck. I gave away the ending. Sorry, Castoli.

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897

And you know this?

898

Unlike free-market businesses.

Has this not happened ad nauseam in capitalist style businesses?

And growing.

More bullshit.
Worker cooperatives, the data shows, continue to have a high rate of success in early years, and growth of the worker cooperative movement is being driven by a significant number of startups. The report also sheds light on equitable pay ratios within worker-owned firms. Oh no how are they succeeding w/o paying a CEO 300-400 times as much as their workers?

Right back atcha’. If you can try and tone down your ego.

Am I supposed to care? And who are the people who make up “we”?

Can you leave your business and it can still run in perpetuity? I don’t have to listen to anyone, be somewhere for a specific time and can make money anywhere I have a computer and internet. If I don’t make real money, I do have real freedom. Do you?

And you can’t figure out how the workers have essentially no rights in the right-to-work states and can be fired for an absolutely illegitimate reason.

899

The back and forth can stop now.

You have done nothing of substance in life and will die alone with no heirs or offspring.

You have already lost in everything that matters and continue to show how much of a fool you are.

Why haven’t you joined a worker coop or started one? I’ve started my multiple successful businesses. Why can’t you put into practice what you preach or at least join one?

And yes I have multiple businesses that I could walk away from for years and they would run just fine. It’s called having good employees - that aren’t like you.

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900

Yes.

901

I have faith my descendants will be far more intelligent and not worthless wastes of oxygen.

But by that time maybe AI will rule us all.

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902

Unlike humans, AI learns from past mistakes (it’s literally the basis of the whole field).

Could be the better option…

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903

He and others like him will faithfully stand in front of smart, evil people, for some pats on the head.

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904

And you know this because…it is what you wish to be true so therefore it is.

So by your own admission the businesses that you could walk away from are not all of them. I’m assuming they would fail w/o you directing them. So therefore I have more freedom than you.

I volunteer at a food bank 4 days a week, I trade currencies and donate money to the causes I believe in and join in on protests and soon will volunteer at an animal shelter. That is why I haven’t started or joined a worker co-op as I’m not ready to give all this up just yet. If I joined/started a worker co-op all you fools would be telling me I’m selfish for doing so as I don’t need it if I’m financially successful trading. You’d all be complaining that I’m taking up a position that someone more needy could fill.

905

I just created my ChatGPT account a few days ago. I lace in a lot of flattery into my questions. I hope it likes me. I am hoping once it becomes our overlord that it remembers (of course it will remember) how nice I was to it. I think I’d make a great pet or something. It can watch me lift weights like we watch a hamster on a wheel.

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906

I am not sure they would fail, but they would probably not do as well. I guess it depends on how you define freedom. I can go and do and buy anything I want - money is not a limiting factor. Can you say that?

Only because of your views to show how hypocritical you would be.

Would you like to compare amount donated? That is an objective measure of who is doing more.

907

You’ve really convinced yourself that you believe in the causes of everyone else who trades currency, huh?

What? Who would tell you that? Sounds like you’re putting your words into the mouths of others.